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A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How we can save the world and crate prosperity
Hurricanes and storms strike New Orleans and Mumbai; flooding causes devastation in England and Mozambique; droughts occur in Australia and Darfur... Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. Here Lord Ster...
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Vintage
2010
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| 020 | |a 9780099524052 | ||
| 082 | |a 338.927 STE | ||
| 100 | |a Nicholas Stern | ||
| 245 | |a A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How we can save the world and crate prosperity | ||
| 260 | |a London |b Vintage |c 2010 | ||
| 300 | |a x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm | ||
| 505 | |a Why there is a problem and how we can deal with it -- The dangers -- How emissions can be reduced, and at what cost -- Adapting to climate change -- Ethics, discounting and the case for action -- Policies to reduce emissions -- Individual, firms, communities: the power of example -- The structure of a global deal -- Building and sustaining action -- A planet in peril. | ||
| 520 | |a Hurricanes and storms strike New Orleans and Mumbai; flooding causes devastation in England and Mozambique; droughts occur in Australia and Darfur... Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. Here Lord Stern, a world leading authority on climate change, confronts urgent questions: What are the dangers? How can the world adapt? And what does this mean for us all? The solutions he gives are provocative, authoritative and inspirational - a blueprint for the future. | ||
| 650 | |a Global warming. Carbon dioxide mitigation. Environmental economics. | ||
| 942 | |c BK | ||
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